Jan J. Cornelissen MD, PhD

Jan Cornelissen, MD, Ph.D., specialized in internal medicine and hematology. His clinical activities are especially focused on the treatment of patients with acute leukemia. He is head of the hematopoietic stem, cell transplantation program at the Department of Hematology Erasmus, University Medical Center.

Recent studies include a demonstration of the survival benefit of allografting in the treatment of acute myeloid and lymphoid leukemia. He is a Professor of Hematology as of 2006 and was an executive board member of the European group of Blood and Marrow Transplantation from 2009-2012 and the Dutch Society of Hematology (2004-2013). Within the cooperative Dutch-Belgian HOVON consortium, he acts as a PI of several transplantation studies. As from 2014 he is chairman of HOVON.